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The Painted Violin
EventGallery 910Arts
March 11 - April 3, 2010
(from the press release)
The Painted Violin Fundraiser exhibition returns to the EventGallery 910Arts on March 11 and continues through April 3, in the gallery at 910 Santa Fe Drive. A benefit for the Denver Young Artists Orchestra, this 6th annual exhibition features retired violins that are transformed into hand-painted original works of art to be raffled, auctioned and sold. This year’s roster of artists who created the violins include Risa Aqua, Liese Chavez, Cynthia Duff, Carrie Fell, Meg Harper, John K. Harrell, Kit Hevron Mahoney, James Jensen, Antonio Maes, Anita Mosher, Dave Reiter, David Taylor, Laurie Thede, Michelle Torrez and Julia Watkins.
“This is the fourth year in a row that the Painted Violins have been exhibited here,” says 910Arts architect and developer Cheryl Spector. “It is a collaboration we treasure because it’s such a perfect match with our mission to foster creative synergy between art and the community.”
The opening reception takes place on Thursday, March 11, from 5:30 to 8:00 p.m., and features performances by Denver Young Artists Orchestra musicians. Raffle tickets are available for specific violins at $10 each or six for $50. The raffle drawing will be held during the Painted Violin Gala Fundraiser on April 11 at the Marriot Denver Tech Center. Raffle ticket holders need not be present to win.
The Denver Young Artists Orchestra was formed in 1977 under the auspices of the Denver Symphony Orchestra. Founders Betty Naster and Carl Topilow organized the orchestra as a means for Colorado’s young musicians to rehearse and perform under professional standards. It has become one of the leading youth orchestras in the U.S., through its mission of providing the finest possible youth orchestra programs, inspiring and educating young musicians through the performance of great works of art and offering cultural opportunities to the community. For more information, please visit DYAO.org.
The eventgallery 910Arts
910 Santa Fe Drive
Denver, CO 80204
303.815.1779
Tue-Fri: 10:30 am - 2:30 pm
Sat: Noon - 5:00 pm
http://910arts.com
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RE: (rebound, recycled, repurposed, reused)
Abecedarian Gallery
February 12 - March 20, 2010
- Reception (during Art District’s 3rd Friday Artwalk): February 19, 5-8pm
- Altered Book Workshop with Judith Cassell-Mamet: March 14, 10-4pm (pre-registration required)
 Doug Stapleton - Stimmung
(from the press release)
Denver’s Abecedarian Gallery Takes a Look at RE: (rebound, recycled, repurposed, re- used) Book Arts
Altering books is currently one of the most popular creative techniques for self-expression … and for good reason. The art form is undemanding and accepting of all skill levels. Beth Cote, one of the authors of Altered Books 101 maintains that ‘you don’t need any artistic ability to make altered books . . . if you’re color blind, memory challenged and can’t draw a darn thing to save your life, you can still be an altered book artist’.
Because of it’s popularity and the abundance of altered book creations that give the artist the direct opportunity of self-expression (sometimes to the exclusion of anything else), gallery director Alicia Bailey stresses the importance of presenting contemporary work that is thoughtfully created and has some regard for concept and execution. No matter what the skill level of the artist, altered book creations should make a meaningful contribution to both the genre and to an individual artists’ studio focus.
Denver’s Abecedarian Gallery will host works by a variety of these artists in the upcom- ing show RE: (rebound, recycled, repurposed, reused). An exhibition of mixed media artwork cre- ated with the intent of changing a book from its original form into a different form, thereby altering its meaning/intent. Some works in the exhibit continue to function as interactive books; other works, both two- and three-dimensional have become passive objects for display.
“I really appreciate the fact that book arts are such an accepting medium,” says Bailey, a book artist with work in numerous public and private collections worldwide. “However, because of that, book artists have a responsibility to put weight into their work and to really present something with insight. No art has to be ‘perfect’ to be a great contribution.”
During the exhibition Abecedarian will be hosting an altered book workshop, taught by Judith Cassell-Mamet. Cassel-Mamet will help students turn a discarded book (provided) into a sampler of altered book techniques. March 14, 10-4pm, vicinity Lowry in east Denver. Phone 720-282- 4052 or email
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for details or to register.
Abecedarian Gallery
910 Santa Fe, Unit #101 (just south of Swift's diner)
Denver, CO 80204
303.340.2110
Thu-Sat: 1:00-5:00 pm
1st & 3rd Fri: 1:00-8:00 pm
http://www.abecedariangallery.com
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Andrew Speer
Pattern Shop Studio
February 5 - April 17, 2010
- Opening Reception: Friday February 5th from 6-9pm
- Friday Hours: April 2nd and 16th from 6-9pm
- Gallery Reception: Saturday, April 17th from 10am-4pm
(from the press release)
Pattern Shop Studio opens February 5th, 2010 with an exhibition of new work by Colorado artist Andrew Speer. A reception for the artist will be held during the First Fridays in RiNo event on February 5th from 6 - 9 p.m. The artist will be in attendance. For more information visit us online at http://www.patternshopstudio.com. Speer is an Emeritus Professor of art at Metropolitan State College of Denver and is the former area chair of the painting department from 1990 - 2005. His artwork has been widely exhibited throughout the country and critic writing and reviews of his work have been featured in many diverse sources.
Speer has received many prestigious awards including Pollock-Krasner Foundation artist grant, was one of nine finalists for the Reader’s Digest Artists at Giverny Program, to name a few.
Pattern Shop Studio
3349 Blake St
Denver, CO 80205
303.297.9831
http://patternshopstudio.com
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Anything But Green
Artwork Network
March 5 - 27, 2010
 Christine Buchsbaum: “Untitled”
(from the press release)
Artwork Network is proud to announce the winners of its 2nd online juried show “Anything But Green”! Participants were free to interpret the theme any way they wished. Artwork was submitted and showcased online then judged by the public as well as a panel of local Denver artists. The winning pieces will be displayed in the Artwork Network Showroom from March 5 - 27, 2010 including the First Friday Art Walk at the Art District on Santa Fe. There is no artist reception scheduled for this show.
The following winning pieces were chosen by Jury Vote:
1st Place - “Untitled” by Christine Buchsbaum (Colorado)
2nd Place - “Invasive Interactions” by Jennifer Galusha (Georgia)
3rd Place - “Perception Through the Void” by Russell Wilbar (Colorado)
Artwork was judged by how effectively the work reflects the theme “Anything But Green”, as well as artistic expression and lasting impression. Jury members included Ivar Zeile of Plus Gallery in Denver; Michael Keen of Gallery Cuvee, Studio 6 Coffee House and the Untitled Art Show Podcast; Jessica Bradley and Alan Kircher of Artwork Network.
The following winning pieces were chosen by Public Vote:
1st Place - “Morning Has Broken” by Joan Marie (Missouri)
2nd Place - “Curious Cows” by Elizabeth Vismans (Maryland)
3rd Place - “El Bar” by Lorena Lopez (Colorado)
The public was encouraged to view the work and vote for their favorite pieces online. Almost one thousand individuals voted from around the world. Click here to see all entrants and click here to see the winning pieces.
Artwork Network will continue to hold online shows to increase visibility for emerging artists as well as the art and services we have to offer. “This is a great marketing tool for the participants, as they are able receive a lot of online exposure for their small entry fee,” said Creative Director, Jessica Bradley. The next online show will be held in the fall of 2010.
Artwork Network provides technology based art consulting, online marketing & management tools for artists and a variety of other art related services. Their 3,000 square foot showroom, located in Denver’s Art District on Santa Fe and is also available to rent events. The showroom is open Monday – Friday 10am – 5 pm, Saturday Noon-4 and by appointment. For more information visit www.artworknetwork.com.
Artwork Network
878 Santa Fe Drive
Denver, CO 80204
303.388.7420
Mon- Fri: 10am - 5pm
Sat: 12pm - 4pm
First & Third Fridays until 9pm
http://www.artworknetwork.com
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The Kirkland Museum Collection - 100 Years of Colorado Art
The Arvada Center
January 21 – April 4, 2010
- Opening reception: Thursday January 21, 6-9pm
- Painting and Sculpture Main Gallery
- Drawings and Prints: Upper Gallery
(from the press release)
This is the Arvada Center's first ever collaboration with the Kirkland Museum and will be the largest display of their Colorado collection ever, thereby allowing enthusiasts the opportunity to see the Kirkland’s vast collection in one location, at one time. The exhibit showcases over 100 Colorado artists chosen from the 350 in the Kirkland Collection – a journey through Colorado art – from early traditional work, to impressionist paintings, surrealism, referential abstraction, and pure abstractions. The upper galleries will showcase works on paper, and the main gallery will display primarily sculptures and works on canvas or panel.
“It has been my longtime aim to organize a major presentation of Colorado art,” states Kirkland’s Director and Curator Hugh Grant. “Conversations with national and regional scholars have supported the judgment that Colorado ranks quite high for its art history among the 50 states. This extensive exhibition will demonstrate the sweep of artistic innovation that occurred in Colorado over 100 years and beyond.”
The timeline of this exhibition focuses primarily on a century of art, from 1875 to 1975. 100 Years of Colorado Art begins in 1875, one year before Colorado became a state, with the early traditional work by Hamilton Hamilton, Helen Chain, Henry Elkins and Richard “Judge” Tallant initially presenting the rich artistic history in the Centennial State. The diversity, breadth and power of our state’s art history continues with such works as the impressionist paintings of John Thompson, Charles Partridge Adams, Elisabeth Spalding and Frank Vavra; Herbert Bayer, Julio de Diego and Mina Conant working in surrealism; Charles Bunnell, Edgar Britton and Edward Marecak developing referential abstraction; and finally the pure abstractions of Vance Kirkland, Al Wynne, Dorothea Dunlop and others. As a tribute to the continuing contribution by artists to Colorado history, a last section of the exhibition is devoted to works after 1975, many furthering these historic styles.
The six divisions of the show will be displayed in the six distinct areas of the main gallery on the first floor. The exhibition continues in the upstairs gallery showcasing the important drawings and prints of Colorado, including lithographs, etchings, engravings, woodcuts, embossings, aquatints and serigraphs. Artists Vance Kirkland, Frank Mechau, Jenne and Ethel Magafan, George Elbert Burr, Lawrence Barrett, Nadine Drummond and others made significant contributions in these media.
“The Arvada Center is truly delighted with the opportunity to be partnering with the Kirkland Museum,” states Arvada Center Executive Director Gene Sobczak. “It is an honor and privilege to be working with Hugh Grant and his team on such an amazing display of historical Colorado art.”
Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities
6901 Wadsworth Blvd.
Arvada, Colorado 80003
Mon-Fri: 9:00 AM - 6:00 PM
Sat: 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Sun: 1:00 - 5:00 PM
720.898.7255
http://arvadacenter.org
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Speaking of Clay
Art Students League of Denver
March 5 – April 21, 2010
- Opening Reception: Friday March 5th from 5:30–8:00pm
- Curators: Peter Durst, Gayla Lemke, Shelley Schreiber, and Bob Smith
(from the press release)
Clay, a most malleable material, takes form through sculptural and ceramic art with surfaces holding unlimited possibilities. Hand-built, thrown, or used in combination with mixed media, clay expresses moods -- dynamic or still, representational, classic, abstract, or conceptual. Clay speaks!
"This show is a survey of some of the best clay work being done in Colorado by established and newer ceramists. This exhibit shows the breadth and diversity of ceramics including earthenware, stoneware, and porcelain; wheel thrown and hand built; functional and non-functional; wood-, gas-, electric-, and raku-fired; glazed and unglazed." --Peter Durst
Exhibiting artists: Bebe Alexander, Julie Anderson, Cathy Avram, Sara Behling, Cristine Boyd, Katie Caron, Doug Casebeer, Amy Chavez, Connie Christensen, Judith Cohn, Kim Dickey, Caroline Douglas, Peter Durst, Sanam Emami, Adam Field, Robin Furuta, Marie Gibbons, Caroll Hansen, Kathy Holt, Barbara Hoffman, Kate Inskeep, Tsehai Johnson, Jonathan Kaplan, Lynda Ladwig, Robert LeDonne, Heesoo Lee, Gayla Lemke, Jim Lorio, Peg Malloy, Jill Manos, Andi Mascareñas, Nan McKinnell, Julie McNair, Mia Mulvey, Kazu Oba, Megan Ratchford, Sara Ransford, Todd Redmond, Chandler Romeo, Barry Rose, Martha Russo, Shelley Schreiber, Janey Skeer, Bob Smith, Maynard Tischler, Nancy Utterback
Art Students League of Denver
200 Grant Street
Denver, Colorado 80203
303.778.6990
Mon-Thu: 8:30 AM - 9:30 PM
Fri: 8:30 AM - 5:00 PM
Sat: 8:30 AM - 4:30 PM
http://asld.org
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Ordinary Oracles: Recent paintings by Kaia Dercum
Boom Gallery on S. Pearl
February 26 - April 4, 2010
- Opening Reception: Friday February 26 from 6-9pm
(from the press release)
Boom Gallery is proud to present ORDINARY ORACLES, a solo exhibit of recent oil paintings by Kaia Dercum, a Colorado native and longtime resident of Crestone, CO.
Kaia’s paintings, she says, “...represent ordinary moments that seem filled with more meaning than the simple event they portray would seem to indicate...the Ordinary Oracles series is about the human need to try to divine the future from discerned patterns in nature that we perceive as signs. They are portrayals of moments in time that stick with me for reasons I do not fully understand. Their prognostication is opaque and personal. Today we have no oracle at Delphi to tell us what the smoke means. We seek order out of chaos and pattern out of disorder. We seek signs. They summon us as much as we summon them.”
ABOUT BOOM GALLERY
- this is our second solo show
- formed in Fall 2009, Boom Gallery represents new and emerging visual artists from the Rocky Mountain region and beyond
- more than 1000 sf gallery space
- 1/2 block North of ArtYard, on the Southwest corner of Pearl St. and Buchtel Boulevard in Denver
Boom Gallery on S. Pearl
1215 S. Pearl St.
Denver, CO 80210
http://boomgallery.com
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Artists of the Art District on Santa Fe
Buell Theatre
February 8 - April 1, 2010
- Public Viewing and Reception Monday February 8 from 6-8pm
- After February 8 the artwork can be viewed only as a ticketed patron of an event at the Buell Theatre or by contacting DOCA to schedule a visit
 Kimono Wall Art from Carol Mier Fashion
(from the press release)
The Denver Office of Cultural Affairs (DOCA) is pleased to present a special exhibition of work representing 18 artists from 15 galleries in Denver’s renowned Art District on Santa Fe. The exhibit features a wide variety of media including paintings, photography, mixed media and textile arts showcasing the talents of artists who regularly exhibit their work in the Art District on Santa Fe.
This is the eighth exhibition in an ongoing series of special exhibitions at the Buell Theatre featuring work by metro Denver artists. The exhibitions are curated by DOCA Public Art Administrator Rudi Cerri.
Galleries & Artists in the Exhibit
- Abecedarian Gallery: Alicia Bailey, Melinda Laz
- Brianna Martray Fine Art: Brianna Martray
- Carol Mier Fashion Gallery: Carol Mier
- Colorado Voice Clinic Gallery: Cheryl Opperman
- CORE New Art Space: Claudia Roulier, Bruce Clark
- 8th Ave Creative Studios: Janet Glovinsky, David Castle
- Grace Gallery: Pauline Bustamante
- Habitat Gallery & Studio: Blake Flynn
- John Fielder’s Colorado: John Fielder
- 910 Arts/Michelle Soule': Michelle Soule’
- Reed Photo-Art Gallery: David Muench
- Sandra Phillips Gallery: Virginia Maitland, Mel Strawn
- Sizzle and Bang: Meg Voigt Meersman
- Spark Gallery: Ellen Chiara
- Studio13 Gallery: Niza Knoll
The Buell Theatre is located in the Denver Performing Arts Complex at 14th and Curtis in Downtown Denver
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The Art of Dr. Suess
Clayton Lane Fine Arts
March 19 - April 18, 2010
- Opening Reception: Friday March 19 from 5-8pm; Presentation by curator Bill Dreyer at 7pm
- Gallery Reception: Saturday March 20 from 5-8pm
(from the press release)
From Friday, March 19, through Sunday, April 18, 2010, Clayton Lane Fine Arts / Gallery One of Denver, Colorado will present “The Art of Dr. Seuss - A Retrospective and International Touring Exhibition,” celebrating the art and life of Theodor Seuss Geisel (Dr. Seuss). This exhibit chronicles the common artistic links found throughout his nearly 70 years of creativity. Opening receptions will be held on Friday, March 19 and Saturday, March 20, 5-8pm each night. Call 720-214-5263 for further information.
The exhibition begins with his early drawings in Life Magazine, includes his editorial, advertising, military, and book illustrations, and finally, his Secret Art collection. Works in the exhibition have been re-created from significant public and private collections, including the University of California San Diego archives, the Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential Library, and the Dr. Seuss Estate, and feature rare and never-before-seen images from the 1920's to 1990's.
The curator, William W. Dreyer, will be present at Clayton Lane Fine Arts the opening day of the exhibit, Friday, March 19 at 7 pm, to provide insights into Geisel’s artistic life, his unique vision and his impact on American culture.
About the Artist: Theodor Seuss Geisel (American, 1904–1991) Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, began his career as a little known editorial cartoonist in the 1920’s. His intriguing perspective and fresh concepts ignited his career, and his work evolved quickly to deft illustrations, modeled sculpture and sophisticated oil paintings of elaborate imagination.
His unique artistic vision emerged as the golden thread which linked every facet of his varied career, and his artwork became the platform from which he delivered 44 children’s books, over 400 World War II political cartoons, hundreds of advertisements, and countless editorials filled with wonderfully inventive animals, characters and clever humor. Geisel single-handedly forged a new genre of art that falls somewhere between the Surrealist Movement of the early 20th Century and the inspired nonsense of a child’s classroom doodles.
Dr. Seuss is currently best known as one of the most beloved and bestselling children's authors of all time, having written and illustrated classics such as The Cat in the Hat, Green Eggs and Ham and How The Grinch Stole Christmas! Ted Geisel is now being recognized for his singular contribution as a unique and influential 20th artist.
Clayton Lane Fine Arts
110 Clayton Lane
Denver, CO 80206
720.214.5263
http://claytonlanefinearts.com
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Expose Your Body (of Art work!)
Co-Art Gallery
March 16 - 27, 2010
- Gallery Reception: Friday March 19th, 5:30-9pm
Co-Art Gallery, an artist owned gallery, presents 19 exciting new artists: Peggy Quinn, Darrell Mason, Jessie Woodard, Bill Poliseo, Claudia Ariss, Tanis Bula, Marcia Nowak, Randall Roberts, Ann Maree Beaman, Helen Howe Braider, Marilyn Hogan, Pnina Osguthorpe, Hakan Carheden, Jean Murr, Becky Everitt, Michaele Greene, John Treinen, John Rehm, Michael Spencer
Co-Art Gallery
846 Santa Fe Dr.
Denver CO 80204
303.573.5503
Mon-Sun: 11am-4pm
http://www.co-art.net
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Patrick Espy
Eagle Valley Artists Alliance
CORE New Art Space
March 4 - 21, 2010
- Artists Reception: Friday March 12, 6-9pm
 Patrick Espy at Core
Transitions: Paintings by Patrick Espy
"With this group of work, I want to provide a meeting ground for concept and physical reality in my paintings. I want it to be indeterminate whether the geometric relationships are the primary vortex, and the objects have preceded the transformation to non logical or supra rational representation- or the converse. I place my observation within the context of order, re-creating creation within his eye's range. With the intent to present a further dichotomy, I use a rich palette and texture which is meant to be balanced and modified by several points of light emanating from the surface. I want in the works, to make for a strong tension that is at once intensified, but finally visually satisfied." Patrick Espy
 Dustin Zentz - Ship of Fools
Eagle Valley Artists Alliance
The Eagle Valley Artists Alliance is a non profit organization in the Vail Valley of Colorado whose mission is to promote visual arts in the community by developing opportunities for artists to create and show their work, and inspiring the community to participate in and experience art. This year's members juried show is the first time the EVAA will have a group show in the Santa Fe Arts District.
The Eagle Valley Artists' Alliance was formed in the summer of 2007. The members felt that the Vail Valley had a strong group of artists that could enrich the community by organizing and reaching out to the community to increase access to the arts and local artists in the community, and enrich artists through artist-to-artist connections, collaboration, and critiques.
 Ethan Rumly - part of the Denver Public Shcool Student Artwork exhibit in the annex
CORE Annex: Denver Public School Student Artwork
The CORE New Art Space gallery is proud to be hosting an invitational show of Denver Public School students’ artwork. The show will run March 4-21, 2010. There will be a special reception for the student artists on March 6, from 1-3pm. Parents, teachers, administrators, and the general public are invited to attend to the student reception as well.
Schools participating in this art show are Archuleta Elementary, Ford Elementary, Envision Leadership School, Manny Martinez Middle School, and West High School. Students from these schools will be displaying a variety of drawings, paintings, photography, and sculpture.
“I have been organizing this show with Lola Montejo, from Manny Martinez Middle School. We are both members of the CORE gallery as well as DPS visual arts teachers. We are happy to have to opportunity to show our students’ artwork in a professional setting like CORE. We are also glad that we were able to invite some other schools in DPS to participate,” says Gene Ray George, visual arts teacher at Archuleta Elementary.
CORE New Art Space
900 Santa Fe Drive
Denver, CO 80204
303.297.8428
Gallery Hours:
Fri: Noon-9 pm
Thu/Sat/Sun: Noon-6 pm
http://www.corenewartspace.com
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Embrace!
Denver Art Museum
November 15, 2009 - April 4, 2010
- Artists in the exhibition: El Anatsui (Nigeria/Ghana), Kristin Baker (U.S.), Matthew Brannon (U.S.), Rick Dula (U.S., Denver), Katharina Grosse (Germany), Christian Hahn (Germany), Nicola López (U.S.), John McEnroe (U.S., Denver), Rupprecht Matthies (Germany), Tobias Rehberger (Germany), Charles Sandison (Finland/U.K.), Dasha Shishkin (U.S./Russia), Shinique Smith (U.S.), Jessica Stockholder (U.S.), Timothy Weaver + eMAD (U.S., Denver), Lawrence Weiner (U.S.) and Zhong Biao (China).
 John McEnroe - The Bathers (2009) - photos by Ken Hamel/DenverArts.org
The Denver Art Museum's Hamilton building has been controversial since the day it opened, often pointed to as the poster child of architectural excess at the expense of the artists the building needs to ultimately serve. Curator (and now museum director) Christoph Heinrich has decided to "embrace" the difficult landscape the 2006 museum addition's slanted walls and obtuse interiors create for traditional painting, and has invited 17 artists to come up with unconventional works that confront and even celebrate the wing's unique spaces.
Especially welcome as part of the exhibit is the addition of several local artists, including John McEnroe who is also known for 2 significant Denver public artworks, "National Velvet" at I-25 and 16th St and "Model State: A Local Cosmology" at the Colorado Convention Center.
While the show certainly succeeds at overcoming the boundaries the building has always presented, the larger question the exhibit begs is: what is the museum's long term commitment to exploring the addition's interior, and will that commitment come at the expense of more traditional works that are a challenge to display?
Denver Art Museum
100 W 14th Ave
Denver, CO 80204
720.865.5000
http://www.denverartmuseum.org
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Face to Face
Denver Art Museum
January 30 - June 30, 2010
 Artist Bill Amundson with "Self-Portrait with Pricey Mountain Homes" - 2008, graphite on paper
It's every artist's dream: to be displayed alongside the masters, and for Denver artist Bill Amundson, his inclusion in the DAM's current exhibit "Face to Face" is certainly a dream come true. Amundson's "Self-Portrait with Pricey Mountain Homes" is the exhibit's keynote so to speak, placed at the entrance to the Hamilton Building's 3rd floor space reserved for works on paper where the show is being hosted. And without doubt the show is a winner featuring world-class artists such as Lucian Freud, Philip Guston, Chuck Close, Francesco Clemente, George Condo, R. Crumb and my personal favorite, Mark Tansey offering up their take on the portrait. - KLH
(from the DAM website)
Explore one of the oldest forms of art—the portrait—in this exhibition of 30 drawings by Bill Amundson, Francesco Clemente, George Condo, Marlene Dumas, Lucian Freud, Philip Guston, Richard Phillips, and others.
These drawings from Colorado collections illustrate the short evolution of portrait drawing. Most of the works are from the late 20th century, but older drawings—including a 16th-century portrait by Bernardo Buontalenti—are featured as well. While the earlier portraits reflect an eye for correctness of physical appearance, later examples show a looser, more relaxed approach with an interest in portraying the psychological as well as the physical.
Denver Art Museum
100 W 14th Ave
Denver, CO 80204
720.865.5000
http://www.denverartmuseum.org
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The Right Choice
Downtown Aurora Visual Arts (DAVA)
March 12 - April 30, 2010
- Opening Reception: Friday March 12th from 4-8pm
 The Right Choice by Kimberly, age 14
(from the press release)
The Right Choice is an exhibition developed by DAVA Youth based on the risks of using and abusing drugs, alcohol and tobacco. The exhibit opens to the public Friday March 12th and runs through April 30 th, with the opening reception on Friday March 12th from 4-8 pm. DAVA (Downtown Aurora Visual Arts) is located at 1405 Florence Street, one block south of Colfax in Original Aurora. Students throughout DAVA programs also developed artwork on healthy eating and exercising as part of a holistic approach to positive life choices.
Every year, youth ages 11 to 14 at DAVA research the most up to date information surrounding substance abuse through a grant from the Colorado Division of Behavioral Health. Through focused educational sessions, middle school youth from DAVA’s Job Training and Computer Arts programs learn about preventing drugs, alcohol and tobacco use. To expand their understanding of healthy choices, they also research mental health, self confidence, nutrition, and exercise. Artist-teacher Sarah Heid comments, “We also shared positive characteristics to look for in friends and in ourselves. We were able to discuss each student’s best attributes and focused on being our best selves in everything we do.”
This year, youth introduced their ideas within the context of DAVA’s overarching themes for the year: health, education, environment and economy. The exhibit is designed to educate and inform the community through the ideas of young people. Youth at DAVA explore topics in a safe creative space, using the arts to explore topics that impact them directly. By bringing their own perspectives to difficult community issues, they offer solutions in their own creative language.
DAVA’s Junior Staff, ages 15-17 created individual projects about alcohol and drug abuse through mixed media projects. Younger kids in the Open Studio started the year with drawing and clay exercises on nutrition, talking about healthy and unhealthy food. Kids drew what was in their stomach and observed the food pyramid. They made food plates in clay focusing on balancing meals. They decided to focus on exercising as part of our healthy habits focus. Kids made clay people exercising, including running, walking, swimming, playing ball games, stretching. They then made a park as a group to display the people.
Parents/guardians and 3-7 year olds in Family Arts created “Shopping for health” by painting healthy foods on tote bags. Come visit the artwork created by children and youth so that you may experience the vision of young people as they examine important community issues.
The exhibits are free and open to the public from 10 am to 5pm, Monday to Friday or by appointment. For more information about the exhibits email
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Downtown Aurora Visual Arts (DAVA)
1405 Florence St
Aurora CO 80010
Mon-Fri: 11:00 am-5:00 pm or by appointment
303.367.5886
http://davarts.org
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Group Exhibition, Part 2
David B. Smith Gallery
February 19 – March 20, 2010
- Opening Reception: Friday, February 19 from 7–10pm
 Cole Sternberg - I believe I can see the future because everyday is exactly the same
(from the press release)
David B. Smith Gallery Launches Group Exhibition, Part 2 to Introduce Gallery Artists
The David B. Smith Gallery is proud to announce its second exhibition of the 2010 Season, Group Exhibition, Part 2. This group show will complete the overview of the 2010 schedule, highlighting the artists who will be exhibited this year in the Gallery, along with several other artists that the gallery would like to showcase. Group Exhibition, Part 2 opens on Friday, February 19th from 7p.m. to 10p.m., and runs through March 20th.
The exhibition will include works by accomplished artists who have shown with the gallery before. We are happy to welcome back Josh Agle (Shag), Niall McClelland and Amy Sol. Gallery favorites Kris Lewis and Jason Thielke will also be contributing new works to this exhibit, and we are very pleased to be able to highlight their impressive work once again.
New to Denver and the Gallery this year are Jud Bergeron, Mario Martinez (MARS-1) and Cole Sternberg. They each bring new ideas and creative approaches to their art. We look forward to adding these artists to the gallery’s program with the diversity of style and medium they represent.
Together, all of the artists in this exhibition contribute to the variety that is today’s world of contemporary art. Our goal is to make this unique work accessible to both new and seasoned collectors. Come join us and be a part of the creative dialogue.
SCOPE New York Art Fair: The Gallery is also very proud to announce that it will return to exhibit at Scope New York 10, an invitation-only art fair at Manhattan’s Lincoln Center. David Smith continues as a member of the fair’s Advisory Board. Scope’s international invitees will continue its unique tradition of high quality exhibits, museum-quality programming, collector tours, screenings and special events. The Fair opens on Wednesday, March 3 and continues through Sunday, March 7. We hope that you will join us in New York for this very exciting event. Please contact the Gallery if you would like complimentary tickets.
About David B. Smith Gallery: David B. Smith Gallery is Denver's venue for emerging contemporary art. Since its founding in 2007, the gallery has been committed to presenting intelligent and culturally relevant exhibitions featuring work from some of today's most compelling artists with growing international reputations. Through participation in leading art fairs and extensive media coverage, David Smith has cultivated a strong regional, national and international collector audience. In August 2008, The New York Times hailed the gallery as offering "an exciting contrast of cutting edge works." In addition to its curatorial program, David B. Smith maintains an active publishing division, Limited Addiction, which produces limited edition artist prints and monographs.
David B. Smith Gallery
1543 A Wazee Street
Denver, CO, 80202
303.893.4234
http://davidbsmithgallery.com
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Joellyn Duesberry's Southwest: Sharpening the Edge
Denver Botanic Gardens - Gates Garden Court
January 28 - April 4, 2010
- Reception: Thursday January 28 from 5:30-8 pm
Explore one of the country's most important plein-air painters. Joellyn Duesberry has mastered a balance between traditional representations and abstracted reductions of form. She successfully introduces formalist representations of landscape with the energy of expressionism. Organized in collaboration with Gallery 1261.
Denver Botanic Gardens
1005 York St
Denver, CO 80206
720.865.3500
http://botanicgardens.org
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Written by Ken Hamel
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David Drew
AMERAQ: The Art of War in Every Day Life
East End Applied Arts
February 12 - March 27, 2010
- Opening Reception: Friday, February 12 from 5–8pm
 David Drew - Spyplane Over The Euphrates
(from the press release)
An Artist’s take on War: Since ‘9/11’ and the invasion of Iraq in 2003 under the pretext of ‘weapons of mass-destruction,’ the American public have been deluged with conflicting, confusing and often contradictory information through the media. More than any other war in history this war has been brought in detail into the lives and homes of ordinary people. Combined with increasingly invasive and penetrative efforts by terrorists the battle affects individuals on a daily basis with effects on personal freedom and security.
AMERAQ: The Art of War in Every Day Life is an exhibition of works by David Drew which examines the Iraq war, terrorism and counter intelligence from this perspective. His approach is a personal record and reflection on media reports, television, radio and newspapers that questions the price of patriotism in a war waged by politicians for dubious purposes and based on unstable foundations. For Drew, war is no longer the distant thunder of troops in a far away exotic location but a twisting and turning series of tragedies and catastrophic events in the domestic environment. With graphic art, drawings, watercolors, mixed media and installation work Drew brings to light the dark side of war channeled into the language of myth. “There is a saturation point where we can neither turn off nor beg ignorance of terrible occurrences,” he says. “We must find a way of absorbing the events taking place and convert them into our own forms of understanding… we begin to create our own myths, not as fantastic inventions for marveling but as a process of healing and equitable recollection.”
About the Artist: David Drew was born and raised in Northumberland, North-East England. He graduated top of his class in 1989 with a degree in graphic art and design from Plymouth University in Devon. He later worked as a freelance illustrator in London specializing in political art for major magazine publishers. Drew has had an on-going interest in the political affairs of the Middle East which began with his degree dissertation on the Graphic Art of the Iranian Islamic Revolution. His work has been exhibited in Londonat The Royal Overseas League, The Edge and The Collective Galleries, and at The Hatton and Northumbria University Galleries in Newcastle upon Tyne. His artwork has been published by The BBC, Time Out Magazine, The Big Issue, Resurgence and recently Ceasefire magazine. David Drew is currently employed by the Department of Human Services at the Colorado State Veterans Home in Aurora.
AMERAQ: The Art of War in Every Day Life, opens Friday, February 12, with a public reception from 5 – 8 pm, at East End Applied Arts, 1556 Florence Street in Aurora and continues through March 27th. The opening reception is free and open to the public and is part of the Second Friday events in the East End Arts District in Aurora. East End Applied Arts is open Thursday through Saturday noon-5.30 pm and by appointment. You can reach the gallery at 720.203.3575 and
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or by visiting the website, www.eastendarts.com.
East End Applied Arts
1556 Florence Street
Aurora, CO 80010
720.203.3575
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Wed: Noon-3:00 PM
Thu-Sat: Noon-5:30 PM
http://www.eastendarts.com
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UCD Annual Juried Student Art Show 2010
Emmanuel Gallery
March 11 – April 1, 2010
 Tony Ortega at the Cherry Creek Arts Festival, 2009 - photo by Ken Hamel/DenverArts.org
(from the press release)
Emmanuel Gallery is pleased to announce the opening of our annual UCD Juried Student Art Show. The University of Colorado Denver’s visual art student’s artwork was guest juried by Tony Ortega. Mr. Ortega had a tough job with over 140 works to evaluate with a final selection of 65 works in exhibit. Mr. Ortega teaches art at Regis University and is represented by Havu Gallery in Denver, Colorado.
We will open the show on Thursday, March 11 at 10:00am and host a reception for the artists at 4:00pm. During the reception we will have a short award ceremony at 5:00. The exhibition will be closed during spring break but open again when school resumes and will continue through April 1, 2010.
Gallery hours are Tuesday – Friday from 10-6 and Saturday from 11-5. Emmanuel Gallery is a tri-institutional gallery, always free and open to the public. For further information, please call or visit our website, www.emmanuelgallery.org.
Emmanuel Gallery
Auraria Higher Education Center
10th and Lawrence St Mall
Denver, CO 80204
303.556.8337
Tue-Fri: 10:00 AM - 6:00 PM
Sat: 11:00 AM - 5:00 PM
http://www.emmanuelgallery.org
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Colorado Clay
Foothills Art Center
March 13 - May 1, 2010
- Opening Reception: Friday March 12, 6-9 pm
(from the press release)
In our newly renovated gallery, Foothills Art Center presents one of its most distinguished and celebrated exhibitions—Colorado Clay. A stunning compilation of contemporary ceramics by fourteen Colorado artists, Colorado Clay will challenge a viewer’s perception of traditional pottery with its exceptional collection of abstract, whimsical, and traditional works of ceramic art. Forget ordinary. View the extraordinary at Foothills Art Center.
- Slide Presentation with juror Adrian Arleo
Thursday, March 11, 6 pm
The 2010 juror will discuss her remarkable artwork & noteworthy career
- Reception & Awards Presentation with juror Adrian Arleo
Friday, March 12, 6–9 pm
Awards Presented at 8 pm
Juror Adrian Arleo will be on hand to present awards to exhibiting artists
- Target Free First Monday: March 15 and April 5
Free admission to the general public
Saturday, March 27, 11 am–2 pm
- Gallery Talk with Exhibiting Artists
Saturday, April 24, 11am
Gallery Talk with Exhibiting Artists, 11 am
Art activities for kids, 11 am–2 pm
- FAC: Friday Afternoon Club
Friday, April 16, 2–4 pm
Demonstration by exhibiting artist Marie E.v.B. Gibbons at E.v.B. Studio in Denver. Create a ceramic work. Space is limited. $10/person. Call 303.279.3922 to register.
Golden High School Ceramics: March 8 – April 2
Through a continued dedication to our community, FAC is pleased to present the work of Golden High School ceramics students in conjunction with Colorado Clay in our main gallery.
Boulder Potters’ Guild: April 8–30
Ceramics enthusiasts will have even more reason to visit FAC with this exhibition featuring dozens of works available for sale by members of the Boulder Potters’ Guild.
Foothills Art Center
809 15th St.
Golden, CO 80401
Mon - Sat: 10:00 am - 5:00 pm
Sun: 1:00 - 5:00 pm
303.279.3922
http://www.foothillsartcenter.org
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Written by Ken Hamel
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Ray Tollison: Faces of Haiti
gallery nrc
March 5 - 27, 2010
- Opening Reception: Friday March 5 from 6-10pm
(from the press release)
gallery nrc, a photography gallery in Northwest Denver, will show the work of photographer Ray Tolison during the month of March. Ray is a photographer for World Relief, where he is documenting their programs in the United States and around the world.
The exhibition at gallery nrc during the month will include images taken by Ray earlier in the year as part of the World Relief disaster response team, as a result of the January earthquake. “Faces of Haiti” is a collection of images documenting the people and their lives after the earthquake. While photographing in Haiti, Ray “…experienced destruction like I have never seen before. In the midst of it all I met some incredible people and was able to document their experiences during and after the earthquake.”
On Friday March 5, 2010, the gallery will be open from 6:00-10:00 p.m. as it takes part in the Tennyson Street First Friday Art Walk. gallery nrc is located at 4424 Tennyson Street, behind the Historical Oriental Theater.
A portion of the proceeds from this show will go directly to World Relief. The exhibition runs from March 5, 2010 - March 27, 2010.
Located in the Tennyson Arts District of Northwest Denver, gallery nrc features the photographic works from emerging and established photographers residing in Colorado and the Rocky Mountain West. On the First Friday of every month the gallery joins over twenty galleries and shops that remain open late to provide a fun atmosphere of art and music along Tennyson Street. More information regarding gallery nrc may be found at http://www.gallerynrc.com.
gallery nrc
4424 Tennyson Street
Denver, CO 80212
303.478.7411
http://www.gallerynrc.com
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Colour: Selected Works by Salvador Dali, Blake Flynn and Georgia Amar
Habitat Gallery & Studio
February 19 - April 11, 2010
- Opening Reception: Friday February 19, 2010
 Salvador Dali, "Great Masturbator" Lithograph #135 of 300, 26" x 20 1/2"
This exhibit demonstrates the use of vibrant colour in art in oil, serigraph screen-print and lithography. The exhibit features three re-framed and re-matted lithographs of Salvador Dali.
Exhibition Media: Oil, serigraph and lithography
Habitat Gallery & Studio
828 Santa Fe Drive
Denver, CO 80204
303.534.9740
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http://www.habitatgallery.com
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Theresa Anderson and Kathy Knaus
Ice Cube Gallery
February 26 - March 20, 2010
- Opening Reception: Friday February 26th from 5-9pm
- First Friday Reception: March 5th from 5-9pm
  Kathy Knaus (left) and Theresa Anderson (right) at Ice Cube
(from the press release)
Kathy Knaus "Meat Market"
Butchering and painting are both art forms. The comparable components of each reveal their visceral and physical elements. Meat and paint are slimy, moist, sticky, and drippy. Brushes replace knives and canvas replaces the butcher block, greasy fat vs. painting mediums. Meat has been distinguished by society as crude and gross; however, for one Colorado artist she only sees the beauty of the form and colors.
Many contemporary artists can speak to something in their past that influences them and Kathy Knaus is no exception. The "Meat Market" installation exhibit is a presentation of objects based on her experiences growing up working in the family meat market.
The meat cooler built for the exhibit incorporates the cooler door (pictured) her father built many years ago. Constructing an installation based on memories attempts to say more than paintings on the wall. The installation creates a sacred space to reflect on the dialectical relationship between the imagined and the real world.
"My father made a door frame from wood and then galvanized metal was placed in the door to help conduct cold air," Kathy states. "I found it leaning against the outside wall of the meat market and it brought back memories of visiting as a child and then working at the market as a teenager and young adult. I was flooded with emotions and wanted to explore these deep-seated memories. Other meat machinery was lying around and I wanted to share my excitement of finding these old pieces with an audience."
Theresa Anderson "Coliseum"
Rejecting the limitations of traditional painting, this installation, On narcotizaion and little flagellations, is a documentation of a month long interactive performance piece that intentionally combines stacks of printed material, autobiographical nonsense, musical lyrics, and recent tabloid exposé with mark making and the original performance documentation of the "body monoprint".
"I present the viewer my own Coliseum where consuming other people's reality is part flagellation and narcotization. Personally, when I entered this place it became like no other filled with never ending people who pour their stories onto my lap as if the buckler I wear holds a map of cures."
Pieces from this ongoing series, stickywater, are part of private collections and have won grants, international contests, awards, and been included in publications such as the New York Journal of Arts and Design under "new talent". Recently identified by Fine Art Critic, Kyle McMillan as one of the region's most promising emerging artists for her solo exhibit, Teeth and Gums, at the respected Denver cooperative gallery, Pirate: Contemporary Art; Anderson also has a large piece of work on rotational exhibit at the new Saatchi Gallery in London.
Ice Cube Gallery at the Dry Ice Factory
3300 Walnut St
Denver, CO 80205
http://dryicefactory.org
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John Grigsby and Kristophor Hutson: "The Illustrated"
Illiterate
March 5 - March 26, 2010
- Opening Reception: Friday March 5 at 6pm
(from the press release)
About The Artists: Childhood friends and creative collaborators, John Grigsby and Kristophor Hutson met at the age of twelve. Both captivated by stop motion animations using clay models, drawing became the necessary language by which they exchanged visual ideas. As their individual abilities with illustrating increased so did their abilities to realize more and more complex animations. The two continued to develop their mutual interest in moving images along parallel lines, going so far as to follow one another form city to city to work in tandem as they each built their own unique esthetic style. The latest stop on their journey: Denver, Colorado.
John Grigsby: Animator and musician, John Grigsby employs traditional and experimental techniques in his explorations of motion through visual and sonic art.
As an animator, John Grigsby utilizes claymation, drawn animations and objects captured in stop motion to create his painstaking films. In his etch-a-sketch narrative, "An Introduction to Lucid Dream Exploration" Grigsby delved into the dark internal world of his own psyche using the iconic red children's drawing tool to produce each laborious frame. In his most recent project, Grigsby manipulated clay figures as well as organic materials, such as fire and ash, to bring to life a philosophical tale of human suffering in Plato's Allegory of the Cave. He is currently working on a new stop-motion project based on an Aesop's Fable.
No less musician than animator, Grigsby often composes and plays the soundtracks to his films. A trained drummer, guitarist and pianist, now primarily focuses his acoustic attention towards playing bass in various experimental jazz groups, including Hamster Theater, Greg Harris Vibe Quintet, Static Trio and Entr'act, which will be performing live at "The Illustrated" opening reception. John's knowledge of music and visual arts has led to recent experimentation with various color and sound frequencies based on brain waves to stimulate certain brain functions.
Kristophor Hutson: Fascinated by personalities both imagined and real, one finds in illustrator and graphic designer, Kris Hutson, the anthropomorphizing caricaturist. An avid comedic voice actor and impersonator, Hutson is a student of stretching reality and playing on expectations for the sake of bringing to life a successful illusion. In his artwork this can be seen in his use and distortion of expected physical geometries. Exemplified in Hutson's "Postura Obscura" series, this suspended disbelief can be found in the faces and figures that explode into gestured abstraction and snap back again to form a cohesive loop of astonishment and recognition. Utilizing fine art techniques such as charcoal and watercolor, as well as digital manipulation, Hutson's vivid exaggerations resound with a depth of light and emotion that makes them seem to call out from beyond the page asking to be animated, as if his characters were all sitting in a casting room waiting for their chance to star in the big show.
Illiterate
82 S. Broadway
Denver, CO 80209
303.993.4474
http://illiteratemagazine.com
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Craig Robb and Marie Gibbons: DoubleEntendre
Ironton Studios and Gallery
February 26 - April 3, 2010
- Opening reception: Friday February 26 from 6-9pm
(from the press release)
Ironton Studios presents a collection of new works by local artists Craig Robb and Marie Gibbons. Two different artists with visually diverse styles and yet there is a strong thematic connection between their works.
Robb: This body of works continues the artist’s exploration into how things are connected, both literally and figuratively. Within this body of work are included objects that, with their inherent symbolism, develop metaphors about issues and ideas that are important hold a certain validity for the artist. The combination of wood and curved steel are utilized as both compositional elements and to create spaces for these objects to reside. Robb has always been interested in how objects function within a given space; how they occupy it and the relationships created with the other objects in that space. Because of the broad range of symbolism, these sculptures can speak on many different levels and to many different people.
Gibbons: Most often, the creation of a new series develops from the written and/or spoken word. These particular works began from the phrase The one that got away [or did it] and additionally, the idea of preservation -- of memory, history, or as a means of self-protection. A combination of specific, created objects in clay, along side found objects of mixed-media, and beeswax, narrate the idea of absence, loss, growth -- changes -- and question if one really looses something/someone if the memory of that thing is preserved, kept alive, in our minds, hearts, lives -- or if it is simply frozen in an altered state.
In addition to their individual works, Robb and Gibbons have also assembled several Still-life conversations by grouping individual works, creating singular conversations through the concept of a Still-life presentation.
http://craigrobb.com
http://mariegibbons.com
Ironton Studios and Gallery
3636 Chestnut Place
Denver, CO 80216
303.297.8626
Mon - Fri: 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Sat: 12:00 PM - 4:00 PM
http://irontonstudios.com
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Looking for the Face I Had Before the World Was Made
Museum of Contemporary Art Denver
Opening Friday January 29 , 2010
- Featuring: Samuel Beckett, Michaël Borremans, Eric and Heather ChanSchatz, Lorraine O’Grady, A. G. Rizzoli, William Stockman
- Opening Reception: Friday January 29: 6–8 pm Members Reception; 8–10 pm Public Opening
- See the exhibitions. Meet the artists. Theremin performance. Psychic readings. Photo booth. Decompression Lounge
- Ample parking is available for $3 in the garage at 15th & Delgany
Museum of Contemporary Art / Denver
1485 Delgany
Denver, CO 80202
303.298.7554
Mon: Closed
Tue–Thu: 10:00–6:00 pm
Fri: 10:00–10:00 pm
Sat-Sun: 10:00–6:00 pm
http://mcadenver.org
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La Malagua (The Jellyfish)
Museo de las Americas
February 4 - June 6, 2010
- Curated by Maruca Salazar
- Opening reception Thursday, February 4 from 7-10 pm
- Free for Members, $4 General Admission
(from the press release)
El Colectivo Malagua features the talent of 5 artists from Puerto Vallarta, Mexico: Jessica Felix, Sergio Martinez, Fernando Sanchez, Miguel Perez and Ireri Topete. The Colectivo has taken the Mexican Loteria iconography and has changed the rules by adding a new card: “La Malagua” (The Jellyfish). This change prompts a visual reinterpretation of La Loteria that parodies its predecessor, along with the comical and the colorful characters of Mexican society. Two Colorado artists, Carlos Fresquez and Belen Escalante, are also featured and will provide their own take on La Loteria. Come and play.
Museo de las Americas
861 Santa Fe Drive
Denver, CO 80204
303.571.4401
http://museo.org
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Jody Chapel and Krista Falkenstein
Next Gallery
March 12 - 28, 2010
- Opening Reception: Friday, March 12 from 6-10pm
  Jody Chapel - Timing (left); Krista Falkenstein (right)
In the Front Gallery
Jody Chapel: Recurrent
The paintings and prints in Recurrent reflect an ongoing exploration of depicting sensory experiences through images of people doing ordinary things. I am interested in emphasizing the energy of instant and accessing spiritual and emotional feelings that connect me with others.
In the Associate Gallery
Krista Falkenstein: Add some Pizazz!
My work evolves around the use of color and texture. Applying mixed media I use my canvas to develop a landscape of layers to create depth and evoke emotion, to surprise with hidden areas capturing the imagination and leading the viewer to their own discoveries.
Next Gallery
3759 Navajo St
Denver, CO 80211
303.433.4933
Fri: 6:00 - 10:00 PM
Sat/Sun: Noon - 5:00 PM
http://www.nextgallery.us
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Clark Richert: 1960s to Present
Philip J. Steele Gallery at RMCAD
February 5 – March 12, 2010
- The Philip J. Steele Gallery is located in the Mary Harris Auditorium Building on the southeast corner of the quad
(from the RMCAD website)
To say Clark Richert has contributed greatly to the Colorado art community would be an understatement. For five decades he has explored the beauty of pattern and shape through his geometric compositions; founded innovative artist groups; and influenced generations of talent as a RMCAD faculty member and Head of the Painting Department.
Drawing inspiration from sources as diverse as Buckminster Fuller and non-representational painter Mark Rothko, Clark has a unique approach to his art—which manages to have a scientific basis while maintaining a simple beauty. Combining the analytic and rational with the creative and intuitive, his artwork is mesmerizing and timeless.
This exhibition will represent the evolution of Clark’s long career as a painter and include a piece on loan from the permanent collection of the Denver Art Museum, as well as several new canvases. This will be a rare opportunity to see the scope of work from an artist who has been—and continues to be—one of the most optimistic and influential voices in the world of fine art.
Philip J. Steele Gallery
Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design
1600 Pierce Street
Denver, CO 80214
800.888.ARTS
Mon-Sat: 11am-4pm
http://rmcad.edu
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Nick Silici
Pirate Contemporary Art
March 5 - March 21, 2010
- Holly Johnson in the associate gallery
- Opening Reception: Friday March 5th from 6-10pm
 Artist Nick Silici from his 2009 Pirate exhibit - photo by Ken Hamel/DenverArts.org  Holly Johnson: anticipating my departure
Pirate Contemporary Art
3659 Navajo St
Denver, CO 80211
303.458.6058
Fri: 6:00 - 10:00 PM
Sat/Sun: Noon - 5:00 PM
http://www.pirateartonline.org
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Karen Swyler
Plinth Gallery
March 5 - 27, 2010
- Opening Reception: Friday March 5 from 6-9pm
 Karen Swyler at Plinth
(from the press release)
On March 5th, Karen Swyler returns to Colorado for a solo exhibition of her fine ceramic work. Swyler, who received her MFA in Ceramics from the University of Colorado, Boulder, joins us for an artist reception and show opening during our March 5th "First Friday", 6-9pm. Karen will also discuss her work at 3pm on March 5th, during a presentation at Arapahoe Community College. For information on this program, call 303-797-5948 or contact
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Plinth Gallery
3520 Brighton Blvd.
Denver, CO 80216
303.295.0717
http://plinthgallery.com
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Bruce Price: "I Am a Cloud"
Plus Gallery
March 4 - April 10, 2010
- Artist's reception: Thursday, March 4th from 6-8pm
(from the press release)
Denver painter Bruce Price returns to Plus Gallery for the fourth time in a solo exhibition with "I am a cloud," a new body of work culled from an intense exploration into abstract painting. Having achieved major critical and curatorial acclaim for his work in the first half of the 2000 decade culminating in his inclusion in the major exhibitions "Decades of Influence" and "Extended Remix" at the MCA Denver, Price launched a solo exhibition at Plus Gallery in 2007 that seemingly defied followers of his work. The large scale abstractions were intensely loose and gestural, unlike the majority of his tightly ornamental work to date. A trained eye may have noticed the broad structural aspects inherent to each canvas that conveyed a major swing towards the microcosmic view, leading towards a much greater exploration within the framework that had been previously laid. Since then Price has become one of the first major Denver artists asked to join the residency project Redline as a mentor, abandoning his remote studio practice for a wider dialogue with fellow artists and the community, something that has invigorated his artwork and brought about fascinating results.
The works presented in "I am a cloud" are modestly scaled and in a variety of formats that fully represent an engagement with ideas and boundless energy the artist has recently tapped into, including his recent inclusion of fabric as a source of inspiration. Landscape is now a strong reference within the works, but Price is more concerned with the duality of static concepts versus continual shift in form and medium. "This body of work, from over the past two years, is a move towards picture making. Spatial contradiction and ambiguity are present to give an experience of indeterminacy. Landscape is more explicit reflecting the use of stream patterns, stratigraphy, perspective, gravity and the space of color. My previous interests in pattern, ornamentation, surface difference, emergence and pleasure remain useful." Even more to the point, Price presents a simple matrix with which to consider his artistic evolution:
Grids are determinant | Clouds are indeterminate
Grids are static | Clouds are change
Grids define | Clouds move
Grids are | Clouds become
The exhibition represents the confidence of a fully-realized artist looking at his career as a continual flow of ideas with few constants and without the typical ramifications an exhibition might entail relating to showmanship, instead tapping into a vein more congruent with his stature as the Director of the "Institute for Experimental Studies" at the Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design. Without losing sight of the fundamentals and signature nature of his output, Bruce Price delivers some of the most honest and relevant cutting-edge abstraction ever presented in the region.
Plus+Gallery
2501 Larimer Street
Denver, CO 80202
303.296.0927
Wed-Sat: 10:00-6:00 pm
http://plusgallery.com
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Germination
Red Delicious Press
March 12 – April 24, 2010
- Opening Reception: Friday March 12, 6-8pm
- Second Friday Hours: April 9, 6-8pm
- Artists: Tonia Bonnell, Tony Crowley, Lise Drost, Louise Kames, Kathleen King, Rachel Melis, Wayne Miyamoto, Karl Nelson, Debora Oden, Liz Parkinson, Teresa Schmidt, Roxanne Sexauer, Sarah Smelser, Tanja Softic
 Sarah Smelser - As a seed or as a spore
Red Delicious Press is pleased to host Germination, an exhibition displaying a suite of prints for a portfolio exchange organized by Kathleen King. Artists were asked to consider the word, idea, or concept of germination and create a print reflecting their interpretations. The portfolio includes 14 prints by artists and an essay by Dr. Glen Brown of Kansas State University reflecting on the concept of germination.
Gallery hours:
Mondays 11 am – 3 pm
Tuesdays/Thursdays 6-8 pm
Second Fridays 6-8 pm
Or call for appointment
Red Delicious Press
9901 East 16th Av
Aurora, CO 80010
303.366.2922
http://www.reddeliciouspress.com
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Love Lines: Figurative works exploring the condition of love—from the romantic to the relational
Redline
February 11 - March 28, 2010
- Curated by Robischon Gallery
- Opening Reception: Thursday February 11 from 6-9pm
 Kiki Smith - Born
Redline
2350 Arapahoe St.
Denver, CO 80205
303.296.4448
Mon-Fri: 9am-5pm
Sat/Sun: 11am-5pm
http://www.redlineart.org
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Second Degree of Separation: An exhibition honoring artist connections
RedLine (in the Community Space)
March 1 - 25, 2010
- Opening reception: Friday, March 5th from 7-11pm; videos and performances starting at 7
 Steven Altman - Untitled Media: Paint skins ( Dried latex paint) Acrylic and Graphite on Panel
(from the press release)
Second Degree of Separation features 30 regional artists in a signature RedLine exhibition. 15 Redline artists, board members, and exhibition committee members were each asked to start a chain reaction by selecting an artist to participate in the exhibition. In turn, each selected artist chose another artist to participate. This expansive exhibition reveals an impressive range of contemporary art and uncovers important connections and polarities informing the central Colorado arts community.
The 15 chains listed below show the initial selector followed by the two artists:
- Viviane Le Courtois - Heather Bussey Patterson - Meredith Nemirov
- John Grant - Steve Altman - Shannon Kelly
- Bob Koons - Ivy Walker - Deborah J. Haynes
- Rupert Jenkins - Jessie Paige - Carol Golemboski
- Terry Campbell - Chrissy Espinoza - Holly Johnson
- Gretchen Shaefer - Eric Portis - Ryan McRyhew
- Sterling Crispin - Liz Holloway - Adam Holloway
- Conor King - Mia Semingson - Maria Lawson
- Margaret Newman - Paul Gillis - Andy Libertone
- Linda Campbell - Michael Gadlin - Homare Ikeda
- Bruce Price - Michael Chavez - Matthew Rich
- Rori Knudtson - Matthew Jenkins - Phillip Faulkner
- Mark Sink - Jason Appleton - Luzia Ornelas
- Jeff Page - Katie Watson - Katie Taft
- Jennifer Miller - Anne Thulson - Mark Penner Howell
Redline
2350 Arapahoe St.
Denver, CO 80205
303.296.4448
Mon-Fri: 9am-5pm
Sat/Sun: 11am-5pm
http://www.redlineart.org
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David Kroll and Karen Kitchel
Robischon Gallery
March 6 - April 17, 2010
- Opening reception for the artists: Thursday March 11 from 6-9pm
 David Kroll Egret on Globe oil on canvas 2010  Karen Kitchel Dead Grass: Early Spring 19 oil on panel 2006-2008
(from the press release)
David Kroll "New Work" and Karen Kitchel "Seasonal Overture"
Robischon Gallery presents new paintings by noted Pacific Northwest based artist David Kroll. Kroll proffers each painting as a kind of meticulously constructed refuge of nature. Environmentally conscious, the artist states that through his work he strives to "add balance, order and beauty to a world that is weighted in the opposite." Kroll's favored elements in his compositions include exquisite, jewel-toned avian specimens and uniquely colorful moths, elevated from their usual commonplace status. Birds and koi are often reverently positioned within the artist's sparsely staged still-life paintings and are often in relationship to porcelain bowls or natural objects like fragile eggs or flowers at the peak of bloom. The paintings possess small ironies which reveal a contemporary view such as a stately egret poised on a globe surrounded by lively fluttering moths and inestimable pools of spilled water or three small songbirds balancing the metaphoric weight of the world on a free-rolling globe. Set against atmospheric landscapes, Kroll creates paintings about paintings offering up both visions of transcendence through nature and reminding us of our own brief, temporal nature.
On view previously in museums until now, the singular "Seasonal Overture" series of Karen Kitchel's widely-admired, forty highly-detailed grass paintings make a much-anticipated scheduled engagement at Robischon Gallery. With Kitchel's characteristic meticulous painting style and intimate pinpoint vantage point, this series examines the seasons from the perspective of four different locales. Embracing the natural world with a commitment to seeing it flourish, the artist brings her audiences an intimate view of what is often overlooked. Her subjects respectfully convey the elemental contemporary Western landscape; early spring in Montana, summer in California, autumn in Colorado, and winter in Wyoming. Kitchel's obsessive and finely-rendered brushstrokes enliven the perpetual cycle of a landscape microcosm from nascent beginning, through vital fullness, inevitable dormancy and eventual rebirth.
Robischon Gallery
1740 Wazee Street
Denver, CO 80202
303.298.7788
Tue-Sat: 11:00-6:00
http://www.robischongallery.com
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Nathan Abels: "Natural Causes"
Rule Gallery
February 5 - March 20, 2010
- Opening Reception: Friday February 5, 6-9pm
- Also on display: group exhibit curated by Nathan Abels featuring work by Alexander Binder, Mindy Bray, Alan Kitchen, Eric LoPresti, Yoshitomo Saito and Jason Stopa
 Artist and curator Nathan Abels - photos by Ken Hamel/DenverArts.org  Sculptor Yoshitomo Saito
Nathan Abels Artist Statement: The works in “Natural Causes” explore the landscape and its inhabitants with each image depicting a visual pause in an ongoing event. What I am capturing in these paused moments is a sense of “straining at particles of light in the midst of great darkness.” (Keats)
Nathan Abels Curatorial Statement: Each of the works chosen for “Natural Causes” contributes to an overall tone – rooted in what Simone Weil calls the “absence of place”. Many of the artists in the exhibition have obscured or abstracted their images from the natural world; some more directly as seen in Alexander Binder’s photographs of psychedelic forests, Yoshitomo Saito’s casts of natural forms, and the distant landscapes in Jason Stopa’s rear-view mirrors. Others present works whose references to the landscape are less direct; Mindy Bray’s watery abstractions, Eric LoPresti’s aerial landscapes, and Alan Kitchen’s work which is reminiscent of a night sky, a weathered stone or a desert floor. Formally, the pieces that make up “Natural Causes” are softened as though seen through a fog, a dust storm or atmospheric pollutants – they show nature as we experience it, not as it ought to be. There is also a degree of uncertainty or mystery to these works that makes them alluring – as if in a night’s time these scenes will be irrevocably changed.
Rule Gallery
227 Broadway
Denver, CO 80203
303.777.9473
http://www.rulegallery.com
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Contemplating Color
The Sandra Phillips Gallery
February 5 – March 13, 2010
- First Friday March 5 open until 8pm
 Hugh Daly - Baile
(from the website)
Color, contrast, and textural intricacy of line are the focus of Robert Livsey Wells with his painting muse being classical music. In listening to the contemporary classical music of Australian composer, Barry Conyngham whose musical ideas suggest change and permanence, the artist’s lifetime interest in visually presenting that paradox in his work through light, movement and color, became the oil on linen piece, “Recurrences” and “Nocturne”. While musical ideas suggest color, movement and texture.....sounds become color for me....I do not paint the composer’s specific ideas or deliberate subject matter. The very act of painting with all the interplay of color, line, space, and shapes has a direction and intent of its own, according to artist Wells.
The provocative abstract paintings of Hugh Daly are also exhibited further exploring each artist’s exploration of color.
The Sandra Phillips Gallery
744 Santa Fe Drive
Denver, CO 80204
303.573.5969
Tue - Sat: 12:30 - 5:00 PM
http://www.thesandraphillipsgallery.com
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"Look In... Look Out" - Micro/Molecular and Macro/Cosmic Images
Sizzle & Bang
February 4 - March 26, 2010
- Artists Reception: Thursday February 4th from 6-8pm
- Featuring Kenneth Crumley, Angela Canada Hopkins, Maria Lopez, Roger Rapp, Lelija Roy, Viral
 Angela Canada Hopkins at Sizzle and Bang
Sizzle & Bang
767 Santa Fe Drive
Denver, CO 80204
http://www.sizzleandbang.com
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Laura Moretz: New Paintings
Space Gallery
February 26 - April 10, 2010
- Opening Reception: Friday February 26, 6-9pm
 Laura Moretz - Throwing Questions
(from the press release)
Boulder-based artist Laura Moretz announced today her upcoming solo show, New Paintings, at Space Gallery in Denver, Colorado. New Paintings is Laura's first solo exhibition in the Colorado area upon her graduation from the San Francisco Art Institute. For New Paintings, Moretz exhibits a series of seven large-scale paintings, her most ambitious body of work to date. Each painting builds up layers of poured acrylic and enamel paints overlaid with multiple levels of mark-making techniques that the artist is known for, including using oil paint marker, pen, charcoal, and script brush.
The series is is an exploration of movement and is inspired by a Buddhist quote the artist discovered:
“This existence of ours is as transient as autumn clouds. To watch the birth and death of beings is like looking at the movements of a dance. A lifetime is like a flash of lighting in the sky. Rushing by like a torrent down a steep mountain.”
Energetic, gestural pours celebrate medium moving on canvas and its relationship to the the canvas and two-dimensional form. Through invasive energy and properties, the artist transforms a two-dimensional plane to become a mélange of interlaced forms with juxtaposing boundaries. The space of untouched raw canvas exists as negative space, a playful dance with colorful and intricate layers of painting and drawing, carefully choreographed to create a harmonious aesthetic.
For her painting, Autumn Clouds, Moretz departs from her earlier work with a stronger emphasis on the relationship between drawn line over thick, textured paint. The use of marker symbolizes the presence of anomalies through design and technology that perpetuate and interrupt this multi-layered experience. The dialogue between the drawn line and the spontaneous spills attempts to mediate this cohabitation of nature and technology. Each painting becomes a navigation of line and form as a process of creating and dissolving systems. The viewer is compelled to deconstruct these cohabiting forms, yet allow them to exist as their own beautiful anomaly.
An opening reception for Laura Moretz will be held February 26, 2010 from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. with the exhibition on view through April 10. A preview of the work will be on display in a group exhibition at Space Gallery opening on first Friday, February 5, 2010.
About Laura Moretz: Laura Moretz makes large-scale abstract paintings that are built up of layers of poured acrylic painting and mark-making. She received her MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2009. She exhibits her work nationally. Most recent solo exhibitions include New Paintings at Space Gallery in Denver. Other group exhibitions include, Vernissage at Fort Mason in San Francisco, White Space at Design Within Reach in Boulder, and Transparencies, at the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art. Moretz lives and paints in Boulder, Colorado, and she is a docent for the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver. Moretz will be featured in the Spring 2010 issue of Visual Overture magazine. Laura Moretz is a current showcase winner for artslant.com. Her painting White Washed Sky was selected in the abstract section of January showcase winners. For more information about the artist, visit http://lauramoretz.com.
About Space Gallery: Space Gallery exhibits painting, sculpture, ceramics and print work from emerging and established local and national artists. The gallery specializes in non-representational abstract and contemporary artwork with a focus on new and interesting media, texture and surface treatment. Space Gallery is located in the heart of the Art District on Santa Fe Dr at 765 Santa Fe Dr. Denver, Colorado 80204. For further information about the gallery, please contact 720.904.1088 or visit www.spacegallery.org.
Space Gallery
765 Santa Fe Drive
Denver, CO 80204
720.904.1088
Tue-Fri: 11:00am-5:00pm
Sat: 10:00am-4:00pm
http://www.spacegallery.org
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Lydia Brokaw, Polly Chang and Karen Link
Spark Gallery
February 25 - March 20, 2010
- Opening Reception: Friday February 26 from 6-9pm
"SILENT TURNING POINT" Mixed media by LYDIA BROKAW
"A SUTRA" Mixed Media Installation by POLLY CHANG
North Gallery features: KAREN LINK "NEW PAINTINGS" Acrylic on Canvas
Spark Gallery
900 Santa Fe Drive
Denver, CO 80204
720.889.2200
Thu-Sat: 12:00 - 5:00 PM
First Friday and Openings 6:00 to 9:00 PM
http://www.sparkgallery.com
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Joanna Whitney and Brian Madeson
St. Mark’s Coffee House
February 13 - March 31, 2010
- Opening reception: Saturday February 13th from 6–10pm
Joanna Whitney - Sacred Heart
(from the press release)
Two Denver artists are putting the ‘Saint’ back in Saint Valentine’s Day – with a show all about Love - expressed in Christian art and symbolism at St. Mark’s Coffee House!!!
Valentine’s Day is named for at least two early Christian martyrs who were named Valentine - at least one of whom was buried near Rome on February 14th, 1700 years ago.
Joanna Whitney and Brian Madeson have put together an exciting and meaningful show about Love by creating inspirational works about Jesus and other Christian spiritual themes using recycled materials, traditional, and new media.
“It adds a much deeper level of meaning to Valentine’s Day to remember that God is Love” says Joanna Whitney, one of the two artists collaborating on the project, which will be featured at the popular St. Mark’s Coffee House and the adjoining Thin Man Bar, at 2019 17th Avenue. The show opens February 13th and will continue through the Lenten month of March. Opening reception for the show will be on February 13th from 6 – 10pm “Come on by and add a new twist to your Valentine’s Holiday and take it back to it’s sacred roots”, say the 2 Denver Artists.
“We utilize found materials and discarded treasures that we have recycled into that great spiritual story that is at the same time always old and always new”, says Brian Madeson who to refers to himself as the “Jesus of Junk”. “I find meaning and value in things that others might discard or dismiss as broken or useless – resurrecting the ‘spirit’ of the materials into objects of inspiration and beauty with new life and purpose”.
Brian Madeson is a long term Denver resident and visionary outsider artist with a background in painting, photography, antique restoration, and sculpture. Madeson is an award-winning sculptor who has worked extensively in assemblage using recycled materials.
Joanna Whitney is an accomplished fine artist who has worked extensively in abstract mixed-media painting and who has been active in the art scene in New York City and Woodstock, NY as well as in the Bay Area. Joanna Whitney has an MFA in Integrated Electronic Art from RPI (Troy, NY), and began collaborating with Madeson in 2009. Whitney says that the Spiritual Icon Project reflects her own spiritual journey and it has seemed to take on a life of it’s own. For more information, and to sneak a preview of some of the pieces included in the show, go to http://joannawhitney.com/spiritual.icons/album/.
There will be 50 new pieces in addition, in this show (not online) some of which have a Valentine’s theme. Contact the artists via Joanna Whitney at 720-243-0545
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St. Mark’s Coffee House
2019 17th Ave.
Denver, CO 80206
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Landscapes 2.0
Studio 12 Gallery
March 5 - April 17, 2010
- Opening Reception with the Artists: First Friday, March 5th from 4-9pm
- Gallery Reception: First Friday, April 2nd from 4-9pm
(from the press release)
Studio 12 Gallery presents Landscapes 2.0, March 5th, 2010 – April 17th, 2010. A group show featuring local artists: Alix Evendorff, Bill Evilsizer, Sharon Feder, Lance Jackson, Marston A. Jaquis, Nemo, Laura Politzki, Lisa Purdy.
This show brings to the public a different way of viewing our surroundings. Each work of art references the traditional landscape but interprets the world around us in a new and fresh way. Seen through the eye of the artist and utilizing a variety of mediums and techniques, these artists expand upon the concept of the landscape. This show is not about the classic landscape; rather it is about the new landscape and the proportions, colors and textures that speak to a new way of describing the world in which we live.
The artwork filling our walls in the early months of spring will bloom with vibrant color, unique form and texture, expressing unique ideas not often associated with the world around us. From post-industrial to abstract expressionism, all styles create a new visual for the surroundings in our life to think and live upon.
Sean Brown's Studio 12 Gallery is one of Denver’s newest and most dynamic galleries within the Bolt Factory, combining the energy of a working art studio within a gallery setting. Located centrally, within Denver’s Art District, Studio 12 shows an eclectic mix of original art, ranging from painting and photography to sculpture and contemporary craft. The gallery features local and national artists, as well as emerging and established artists, and presents a new show every month, each opening with an artist's reception on First Friday.
Sean Brown's Studio 12 Gallery
209 Kalamath St., Unit 12
Denver CO, 80204
303.629.8744
Mon-Fri: 10-6
Sat: 11-4
http://www.studio12gallery.com
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Roxanne Rossi
Sync Gallery
February 19 - March 13, 2010
- Opening Reception Friday February 19th, 6-9 pm
"Coming to the Surface" paintings by Roxanne Rossi
Roxanne Rossi current large scale work explores the subtle use of delicate textures that appear underneath a heavy, creamy layer of acrylic paint reveling a dynamic image of a classic dress. These large scale works are elegant, minimal and sophisticated. Contact info 303-246-7387
Sync Gallery
878 - 1 Santa Fe Drive
Denver, CO 80204
http://syncgallery.org
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Lisabel Filiatrault
Translations Gallery
March 5th – March 30th, 2010
- Exhibition Opening with artist in attendance: Friday, March 12th 6-9pm
 Lisabel Filiatrault, Rive (Riverbank), polymers on canvas, 72”w x 30”h
(from the press release)
Canadian artist Lisabel Filiatrault has a unique artistic approach to her painting which incorporates her passion for faces, landscapes, and abstract painting. With her background of working with composite materials, she has acquired the knowledge and skills that allow her to create and master the explosive textures and colors which are so much a part of her work. Various methods of applying the paint including using a spatula to swirl and mix colors directly on the canvas and splattering the paint in slices across the canvas result in a dynamic composition.
Translations Gallery
1743 Wazee St
Denver, CO 80202
303.629.0713
Tues-Sat: 11-6
http://translationsgallery.com
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Heads of Hydra, a photographers' collective
Curated by Richard Peterson
Vertigo
March 5 – April 30, 2010
- Gallery Reception: Third Friday March 19 from 6–10pm
- Closing Reception: Third Friday April 16 from 6–10pm
In pursuit of Chance Elements and Unknown Pleasures, Heads of Hydra is: John Babcock, David Zimmer, Mark Sink, Cornelia Peterson, Sabin Aell, Richard Peterson, Carson Reed (writer)
This exhibition is based loosely on a 19th century French Symbolist writer's pursuit of the Unknown, Arthur Rimbaud. A creative writer, Carson Reed, plans to summon new words from the chance sequence of the images (instead of the usual scenario of illustrations created to illuminate the writing, words will be created from the sequence of illustrations). Carson intends to present his short story before the artists' reception on 19 March 2010, and it will be posted at the event. ...the sudden onset of vertigo in the midst of a dream...
Vertigo Art Space
960 Santa Fe Dr
Denver, CO 80204
303.573.VERT (8378)
http://www.vertigoartspace.com
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Eric Corrigan: High-Bias
Walker Fine Art
February 26 - April 16, 2010
 Artist Eric Corrigan (right) - photos by Ken Hamel/DenverArts.org
(from the press release)
Walker Fine Art presents HIGH-BIAS by Eric Michael Corrigan. This conceptual, pop-influenced installation addresses parallels in the rapid succession of audio formats to contemporary human nature. HIGH-BIAS is aimed to provoke an emotional response from the viewer through juxtaposing the ‘tangible vs. intangible’, ‘vinyl vs. MP3.’ More like a foot note, this exhibit is an incredibly personal opinion- not unlike your "top 5 songs of all time" list. Each piece attempts to invoke nostalgia in the viewer while exploiting audio format progressions. The paintings on the wall allude to the lost idea of the album. Some pieces appear disposable, almost throwaway, but still more tangible than the non- existent formats that have replaced them.
HIGH-BIAS is intended to be a micro-cosm of the evolution (or de-evolution) of society asking poignant questions through a variety of media featuring paintings, video and multi-sensory installations: Is the digital download a mere metaphor for the very way we race through life? Is the very attitude of our nation in such hyper-drive that we no longer understand what it is to take a deep breath without feeling the need to Twitter about it? Has the richness of life been stripped down like a misunderstood text message? Are the little things that really matter from day to day -the little pops and hisses, the ambiences of life getting edited out? Is it better?
Click here for pix from the exhibit...
Walker Fine Art
300 W. 11th Ave (11th and Cherokee)
Denver CO 80204
303.355.8955
Tue-Sat: 11:00 am - 6:00 pm
http://www.walkerfineart.com
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Amy Metier: Palimpsest
William Havu Gallery
February 26 - April 10, 2010
- Opening Reception: Thursday February 25th, 6-9pm
- Also featuring: Robert Delaney - Kinetic Sculptures
- In the salon: Jeremy Hillhouse 1940 – 2009
- On the mezzanine: Betsy Margolius
 Amy Metier - photos by Ken Hamel/DenverArts.org  Sculptor Robert Delaney
(from the press release)
The William Havu Gallery presents Palimpsest, an exhibition by Amy Metier in the main gallery. Also featured will be kinetic sculptures by Robert Delaney. In the salon will be small show honoring Jeremy Hillhouse 1940 - 2009. On the mezzanine will be new works by Betsy Margolius.
In her third solo exhibition at the William Havu Gallery, Metier fills the space with exuberant abstractions of objects from Metier's studio, other artist's studios and recent travels. These shapes are drawn with fluid, gestural lines, wiped away or partially painted over, and redrawn again, inviting the viewer to engage in the painting.
In several of the larger works on canvas, an atmospheric gray is sparked with shards and washes of brighter color. While not painting light and shadow in the traditional sense of the word, this work implies the sensation of light through intuitively placed color and layering of transparent and opaque paint.
Many of the small works on paper were created during a residency in France and Sweden in the summer of 2009. These small, delicate pieces combine freely painted lines in ink with color washes and collage from papers discovered while in France.
William Havu Gallery
1040 Cherokee Street
Denver CO 80204
303.893.2360
http://williamhavugallery.com
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Remembering Dale Chisman
Z Art Dept.
January 15 - (extended to April 15, 2010)
- Opening reception: Friday January 15th from 6-9pm
- Gallery reception: Saturday February 27th from 6-9pm
Z Art Dept.
1136 N. Speer Blvd
Denver, CO 80204
303.298.8432
http://zmodern.com
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Katharine McGuinness: The Color of Space
Zip37
February 26 - March 14, 2010
- Opening Reception: Friday February 26 from 6-10pm with classical guitar by Kevin Garry
Zip37
3644 Navajo St
Denver, CO 80211
303.477.4525
Fri: 6:00 - 10:00 PM
Sat/Sun: Noon - 5:00 PM
http://zip37.com
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Zoa Ace
Zip37
March 19 - April 3, 2010
- Opening Reception: Friday, March 19th from 6-10pm
 Zoa Ace - Miss Fortune
Zip37
3644 Navajo St
Denver, CO 80211
303.477.4525
Fri: 6:00 - 10:00 PM
Sat/Sun: Noon - 5:00 PM
http://zip37.com
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